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  1. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    More game devs that don't understand games. They're never going to achieve this mystical balance they're seeking. There will always be a meta build. Nerfing shit only annoys your playerbase.
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    All the stock market money flowing back into crypto?
  3. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Nicer sand, and warmer water. Less waves though. I highly recommend the Redneck Riviera (or Emerald Coast if you want to be more tourist friendly).
  4. Gravel

    Factorio

    I'm 34 hours into SE and I think I've spent the last 10 hours just trying to figure out a layout for city blocks (thanks a lot, Tuco!). Now I'm trying to figure out how to actually implement the fucking things. I've got 6 technologies left running on the orange rocket science and then I really...
  5. Gravel

    Community

    No Chevy? Disappointed.
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    Curb your Enthusiasm

    I've been rewatching Seinfeld, and in the episode "The Barber" (season 5 episode 8), Kramer is getting a shave at the barbershop and the barber keeps talking about Edward Scissorhands. Kramer then goes "I wish I could have shoehorn hands." Makes me wonder if that one was improvised or if it's...
  7. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    It misses the point I was trying to make. Post mid-90's, music became homogenized. Pretty much all of your examples, and basically all commercially successful music, is just lots of 4 chord progressions. Lately a lot of trap beats. It's boring music. It's catchy, for sure. But it all sounds the...
  8. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Song feels very 90's to me. Except with a breakdown.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I've made a handful of posts about it, but I'm really starting to believe the Telecommunications Act in 1996 is why we're so nostalgic. Because it allowed all the media companies to consolidate, it got rid of all of the risk and made everything the same. New music sucks because the record and...
  10. Gravel

    Factorio

    I'm still pretty overwhelmed by SE. Almost 15 hours in now. My base is a fucking mess. I can't decide if I want to rebuild it to clean it up, or if things in the next phase of the game will make that unnecessary. Since I haven't played though, I have no clue. I made the rocket launcher silo or...
  11. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Market has been on a fucking tear. Over 8% now in just the first two months.
  12. Gravel

    Balatro - A poker deck building roguelike

    I don't understand what's happening in that video. Watched 8 minutes and he throws away a full house for two pair, throws away a straight for...two pair. What the fuck is going on?
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Lewis looked like absolute shit on last season of Curb. I'm honestly not surprised.
  14. Gravel

    Factorio

    My ADD got the best of me and I started up an SE game. It's definitely slow going. I'm 4 hours in and just barely getting set up (have iron/copper/steel on a bus and a makeshift red/green lab setup). No mall, nothing else automated. It's a shit show. I think I was about 24-25 hours into K2...
  15. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    Pretty much how it is with us, too. I was fine paying subscriptions when there were 2 or 3 services and they were cheap. Somehow competition made the price go way up as everyone wanted a piece of the pie and then got greedy. I'd bet it's more expensive than cable/satellite now. Although I never...
  16. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    It's amazing that it can take that long to fire someone who's so profoundly terrible at their job. But I guess spreading the message takes priority over profits.
  17. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    I had it happen at least 3 times in the first week.
  18. Gravel

    Factorio

    I'm not sure I have it in me to try SE. Krastorio 2 is fucking ridiculous so far. Although part of it is that I'm also trying base game stuff out that I never did in vanilla like nuclear. But there's just an obscene amount of shit. SE just sounds frustrating.
  19. Gravel

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    I just don't understand why you'd willingly subject yourself to the brainwashing that is Tiktok/Instagram.
  20. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    I really, really like the orbital laser. If you're in an oh shit scenario, it's basically a reset. The only downside is the 3 use limit.
  21. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    They're both dumb for confessing.
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, graphics cards are probably more valuable than maple syrup.
  23. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    The fucking retarded wiring that a lot of electricians do, likely out of laziness, really grinds my gears. Our house in California had the stupidest fucking wiring I could've imagined. Just random rooms connected together, likely to save costs somewhere (probably to either save a single GFCI, or...
  24. Gravel

    Borderlands

    That was so much worse looking than I expected. Riddle me this, why the fuck would you cast Jack Black as Claptrap instead of the actual voice actor?
  25. Gravel

    Constellation

    If you don't watch it now, you'll be wasting 5 weeks. That's how these things work. You don't want to lose 5 weeks of your life, do you?
  26. Gravel

    Borderlands

    Seriously. I like Blanchett too, but she's a terrible miscast here.
  27. Gravel

    Nightingale

    They get your money and never even have to release the game officially.
  28. Gravel

    Nightingale

    Guns, Nerds and Steel (he got me playing some of the overhaul mods like Undead Legacy and Darkness Falls) is a hardcore 7 Days player. I'd say if he's not keen on it, it's probably not worthwhile.
  29. Gravel

    True Detective

    It's a shame I "wasted" 6 weeks not watching this show.
  30. Gravel

    Twisters (2024)

    Not only that, but you can see from the trailer it's the same little orb things that they put in a trash can on the back of the truck. That's why I said this looks like a remake and not a sequel. It's quite sad.
  31. Gravel

    Factorio

    Yeah, I completely forgot about the expansion. Didn't realize it was basically adding space. How crazy is K2 just by itself? In messing around it seems like it uses weird card things for research. But other than that I haven't messed around with it at all. I've noticed with vanilla I just make...
  32. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    There's not really any meaningful progression. There are levels that unlock more things, but most things are all side upgrades and not actually getting more powerful. And you can buy different weapons and strategems (things like airstrikes or turrets) but once again, they're not necessarily more...
  33. Gravel

    Factorio

    Not sure anyone other than @Tuco plays modded Factorio, but I loaded up Space Exploration and Krastorio 2 and had no fucking clue what I was doing. I hadn't played since December 2020 as I mentioned in the Satisfactory thread. Played for a couple hours to get my bearings before installing the...
  34. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Without quickplay working, you're left either finding some randoms from discord, or bringing your own. Just getting into the game isn't super useful.
  35. Gravel

    Twisters (2024)

    I really figured this was a sequel, not a lazy remake.
  36. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    11am and servers already at capacity. And even if I can get in, can't matchmake. Probably not going to bother with this one anymore.
  37. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    I mean, I think my group may be ready to move on soon if we're not able to figure this out. If you can't play the game, we're not going to sit in Discord just chit chatting all night hoping we all get through the queue and don't crash.
  38. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    The only thing that makes me think it's not that simple is it seems like maybe the issue is with their coding and, specifically, calls to whatever database they're using. They've had to essentially turn off anything related to queries (any items, after map stats, literally all the matchmaking...
  39. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Turned the review off after the first 5 minutes and glad I did, cause it seemed like they basically explained the entire plot. But yeah, this was one hilarious. I think they nailed it that if it'd be released 20+ years ago, it would be a classic. And their synopsis of "punk rocker falls in...
  40. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Are they bugging out again already? Doesn't bode well for later this evening on a Saturday. But yeah, relogging when shit was bad last night gave me a few of the rewards (exp mostly I think). The other stuff only applied this morning when I logged in. And don't be jealous. Having a ton of...